US4880715A - Imaging system - Google Patents
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- This invention relates generally to an imaging system, and more specifically to an improved migration imaging member and xeroprinting duplicating process utilizing the improved migration imaging member.
- lithographic or offset printing is a well known and established printing process.
- lithography is a method of printing from a printing plate which depends upon different inking properties of the imaged and non-imaged areas for printability.
- a lithographic intermediate is first prepared on silver halide film from the original; the printing plate is then contact exposed by intense UV light through the intermediate. UV exposure causes the exposed area of the printing plate to become hydrophilic or ink receptive; the non-exposed area is washed away by chemical treatment and becomes hydrophobic or ink repellant.
- Printing ink is then applied to the printing plate and the ink image is transferred to an offset roller where the actual printing takes place.
- lithorgaphic printing provides high quality prints and high printing speed, the processes require the use of expensive intermediate films and printing plates. Additionally, considerable cost and time are consumed in their preparation, often requiring highly skilled labor and strict control measures.
- a further disadvantage is the difficulty in setting up the printing press to achieve the proper water to ink balance required to produce the desired results during the printing process. This results in further increased cost and delay time in obtaining the first acceptable print.
- Xerographic printing is another well known printing technique.
- convventional xerographic printing an electrostatic image is first produced, either by lens coupled exposure to visible light or by laser scanning, on a conventional photoreceptor; the electrostatic image is then toned, followed by transferring of the toner image to a receiving medium. While it offers the advantages of ease of operation and printing stability, requiring less skilled involvement and labor cost, the combined requirements of high quality and high printing speed needed in commercial printing can not be easily met simultaneously at reasonable cost. This is because, to provide high quality and to avoid certain artifacts, very high-picture-element density is also required.
- Xeroprinting is another xerographic printing method.
- xeroprinting overcomes the above problems in a very simple way.
- Xeroprinting is an electrostatic printing process for printing multiple copies from a master plate or cylinder.
- the master plate may comprise a metal sheet upon which is imprinted an image in the form of a thin electrically insulating coating.
- the master plate may be made by photomechanical methods or by xerographic techniques. From the original, a single xeroprinting "master" can, for example, first be made slowly, in say 30-60 seconds.
- This imaged material is classically an electrical conductor with an imagewise pattern of insulating areas made by photomechanical or xerographic techniques; it has different charge acceptance in the imaged and non-imaged areas.
- the imaging surface of the master plate comprises an electrically insulating pattern corresponding to the desired image shape and electrically conductive areas corresponding to the background.
- the xeroprinting master is then uniformly charged; the charge remains trapped only on the insulating areas, and this electrostatic image may then be toned.
- the charge-tone-transfer-clean process is repeated at high speed. In principle, then, it is possible to retain much of the simplicity, stability and quality of the xerographic process, without the need for repeated imagewise exposure. As an additional bonus, it may not be necessary to employ a cleaning step, since the same area is repeatedly toned.
- a xeroprinting process in which the xeroprinting master is formed by applying an electric field to a layer of photoelectrophoretic imaging suspension between a blocking electrode and an injecting electrode, one of which is transparent, the suspension comprising a plurality of photoelectrophoretic particles in an insulating carrier liquid, imagewise exposing the suspension to electromagnetic radiation through the transparent electrode to form complementary images on the surfaces of the electrodes (the light exposed particles migrating from the injecting electrode to the blocking electrode), transferring one of the images to a conductive substrate, uniformly applying to the image bearing substrate an organic insulating binder such that the binder thickness both within the image formed and the non-image areas ranges from 1-20 micrometers.
- the xeroprinting process consists of applying a uniform charge to the surface of the image bearing substrate in the presence of electromagnetic radiation to form an electrostatic residual charge pattern corresponding to the non-image area (areas void of photoelectrophoretic particles), developing the residual charge pattern, transferring the developer from the residual charge pattern to a copy sheet and repeating the charging, developing and transferring steps.
- the insulating binder may be intimately blended with the dispersion of the photoelectrophoretic particles prior to insertion of the liquid mixture between the electrodes. The areas from which photoelectrophoretic particles have migrated become insulating and capable of supporting an electrostatic charge.
- a major problem is that insulating images supported directly on a conducting substrate cannot be charged close to the edges, because fringe fields drive incoming ions to the grounded substrate.
- Another disadvantage of such processes is that they require the use of a liquid photoelectrophoretic imaging suspension to prepare the master.
- master making processes are extremely complicated involving the removal of one of the electrodes, transfer of one of the complementary images to a conductive substrate, and application of an organic insulating binder to the conductive substrate. Such complicated master making processes are inconvenient to the users and can adversely affect the print quality. It also requires additional time to dry the image prior to use as a xeroprinting master.
- a migration imaging member comprising a substrate, a layer of softenable material, and photosensitive marking material is imaged by first forming a latent image by electrically charging the member and exposing the charged member to a pattern of activating electromagnetic radiation such as light.
- the photosensitive marking material is originally in the form of a fracturable layer contiguous the upper surface of the softenable layer, the marking particles in the exposed area of the member migrate in depth toward the substrate when the member is developed by softening the softenable layer.
- softenable as used herein in intended to mean any material which can be rendered more permeable thereby enabling particles to migrate through its bulk.
- changing the permeability of such material or reducing its resistance to migration of migration marking material is accomplished by dissolving, swelling, melting or softening, by techniques, for example, such as contacting with heat, vapors, partial solvents, solvent vapors, solvents and combinations thereof, or by otherwise reducing the viscosity of the softenable material by any suitable means.
- the expression "facturable" layer or material as used herein means any layer or material which is capable of breaking up during development, thereby permitting portions of said layer to migrate toward the substrate or to be otherwise removed.
- the fracturable layer is preferably particulate in the various embodiments of the migration imaging members.
- Such fracturable layers of marking material are typically contiguous to the surface of the softenable layer spaced apart from the substrate, and such fracturable layers may be substantially or wholly embedded in the softenable layer in various embodiments of the imaging members.
- contiguous as used herein is intended to mean in actual contact, touching, also, near, though not in contact, and adjoining, and is intended to generically describe the relationship of the fracturable layer of marking material in the softenable layer, vis-a-vis, the surface of the softenable layer spaced apart from the substrate.
- optical sign-retained as used herein is intended to mean that the dark (higher optical density) and light (lower optical density) areas of the visible image formed on the migration imaging member correspond to the dark and light areas of the image on the original.
- optical sign-reversed as used herein is intended to mean that the dark areas of the image formed on the migration imaging member correspond to the light areas of the image on the original and the light areas of the image formed on the migration imaging member correspond to the dark areas of the image on the original.
- optical contrast density as used herein is intended to mean the difference between maximum optical density (D max ) and minimum optical density (D min ) of an image. Optical density is measured for the purpose of this application by diffuse densitometers with a blue Wratten No. 94 filter.
- optical density as used herein is intended to mean “transmission optical density” and is represented by the formula:
- the value of transmission optical density given in this invention includes the substrate density of about 0.2 which is the typical density of a metallized polyester stubstrate
- Various means for developing the latent images may be used for migration imaging systems. These development methods include solvent wash away, solvent vapor softening, heat softening, and combinations of these methods, as well as any other method which changes the resistance of the softenable material to the migration of particulate marking material through the softenable layer to allow imagewise migration of the particles in depth toward the substrate.
- solvent wash away or meeniscus development method the migration marking material in the light struck region migrates toward the substrate through the softenable layer, which is softened and dissolved, and repacks into a more or less monolayer configuration.
- this region exhibits a maximum optical density which can be as high as the initial optical density of the unprocessed film.
- the migration marking material in the unexposed region is substantially washed away and this region exhibits a minimum optical density which is essentially the optical density of the substrate alone. Therefore the image sense of the developed image is sign reversed, i.e. positive to negative or vice versa.
- Various methods and materials and combinations thereof have previously been used to fix such unfixed migration images.
- the migration marking material in the light struck region disperses in the depth of the softenable layer after development and this region exhibits D min which is typically in the range of 0.6-0.7. This relatively high D min is a direct consequence of the depthwise dispersion of the otherwise unchanged migration marking material.
- the migration marking material in the unexposed region does not migrate and substantially remains in the original configuration, i.e. a monolayer. In migration imaging films supported by transparent substrates, this region exhibits a maximum optical density (D max ) of about 1.8-1.9. Therefore, the image sense of the heat or vapor developed images is sign retaining, i.e. positive-to-positive or negative-to-negative.
- an imaging member comprising a softenable layer containing a fracturable layer of electrically photosensitive migration marking mateial is imaged in one process mode by electrostatically charging the member, exposing the member to an imagewise pattern of activating electromagnetic radiation, and the softenable layer softened by exposure for a few seconds to a solvent vapor thereby causing a selective migration in depth of the migration material in the softenable layer in the areas which were previously exposed to the activating radiation.
- the vapor developed image is then subjected to a heating step.
- the exposed particles gain a substantial net charge (typically 85-90% of the deposited surface charge) as a result of light exposure, they migrate substantially in depth in the softenable layer towards the substrate when exposed to a solvent vapor, thus causing a drastic reduction in optical density.
- the optical density in this region is typically in the region of 0.7 to 0.9 after vapor exposure, compared with an initial value of 1.8 to 1.9. In the unexposed region, the surface charge becomes discharged due to vapor exposure.
- the subsequent heating step causes the unmigrated, uncharged migration material in unexposed areas to agglomerate or flocculate, often accompanied by coalescence of the marking material particles, thereby resulting in a migration image of very low minimum optical density (in the unexposed areas) in the 0.25-0.35 range.
- the contrast density of the final image is typically in the range of 0.35 to 0.65.
- the migration image may be formed by heat followed by exposure to solvent vapors and a second heating step which also results in a migration image with very low minimum optical density.
- the softenable layer remains substantially intact after development, with the image being self-fixed because the marking material particles are trapped within the softenable layer.
- Agglomeration as used herein is defined as the coming together and adhering of previously substantially separate particles, without the loss of identity of the particles.
- coalescence as used herein is defined as the fusing together of such particles into larger units, usually accompanied by a change of shape of the agglomerate towards a shape of lower energy, such as a sphere.
- the softenable layer of migration imaging members is characterized by sensitivity to abrasion and foreign contaminants. Since a fracturable layer is located at or close to the surface of the softenable layer, abrasion can readily remove somee of the fracturable layer during either manufacturing or use of the film and adversely affect the final image. Foreign contamination such as finger prints can also cause defects to appear in any final image. Moreover, the softenable layer tends to cause blocking of migration imaging membes when multiple members are stacked or when the migration imaging material is wound into rolls for storage or transportation. Blocking is the adhesion of adjacent objects to each other. Blocking usually results in damage to the objects when they are separated.
- the sensitivity to abrasion and foreign contaminants can be reduced by forming an overcoating such as the overcoatings described in U.S.-A Pat. No. 3,909,262.
- an overcoating such as the overcoatings described in U.S.-A Pat. No. 3,909,262.
- the migration imaging mechanisms for each development method are different and because they depend critically on the electrical properties of the suface of the softenable layer and on the complex interplay of the various electrical processes involving charge injection from the surface, charge transport through the softenable layer, charge capture by the photosensitive particles and charge ejection from the photosensitive particles etc.
- application of an overcoat to the softenable layer often causes changes in the delicate balance of these processes, and results in degraded photographic characteristics compared with the non-overcoated migration imaging member.
- the photographic contrast density is degraded.
- the insulating binder may be intimately blended with the dispersion of the photoelectrophoretic particles prior to insertion of the liquid mixture between the electrodes.
- the areas from which photoelectrophoretic particles have migrated become insulating and capable of supporting an electrostatic charge.
- U.S.-A Pat. No. 4,536,457 to M. C. tam, issued Aug. 20, 1985--A process is disclosed in which a migration imaging member comprising a substrate and an electrically insulating softenable layer on the substrate, the softenable layer comprising migration marking material located at least at or near the surface of the softenable layer spaced from the substrate and a charge transport molecule, (e.g. the imaging member described in U.S.-A Pat. No. 4,536,458), is uniformly charged, and exposed to activating radiation in an imagewise pattern.
- a migration imaging member comprising a substrate and an electrically insulating softenable layer on the substrate, the softenable layer comprising migration marking material located at least at or near the surface of the softenable layer spaced from the substrate and a charge transport molecule, (e.g. the imaging member described in U.S.-A Pat. No. 4,536,458), is uniformly charged, and exposed to activating radiation in an imagewise pattern.
- the resistance to migration of marking material in the softenable layer is thereafter descreased sufficiently by the application of solvent vapor to allow the light exposed particles to retain a slight net charge to prevent agglomeration and coalescence and to allow slight migration in depth of marking material towards the substrate in image configuration, and the resistance to migration of marking material in the softenable layer is further decreased sufficiently by heating to allow non-exposed marking material to agglomerate and cloalesce.
- the preferred thickness is about 0.5-2.5 micrometers, although thinner and thicker layers may be utilized.
- U.S.-A Pat. No. 4,536,458 to Dominic S. Ng, issued Aug. 20, 1985--A migration imaging member comprising a substrate and an electrically insulating softenable layer on the substrate, the softenable layer comprising migration marking material located at least at or near the surface of the softenable layer spaced from the substrate and a charge transport molecule.
- the migration imaging member is electrostatically charged, exposed to activating radiation in an imagewise pattern and developed by decreasing the resistance to migration, by exposure either to solvent vapor or to heat, of marking material in depth in the softenable layer at least sufficient to allow migration of marking material whereby marking material migrates toward the substrate in image configuration.
- the preferred thickness of the softenable layer is about 0.7-2.5 micrometers, although thinner and thicker layers may also be utilized.
- U.S.-A Pat. No. 2,576,047 to R. Schaffert, issued Nov. 20, 1951-A xeroprinting device and process are described in which, for example, an insulating pattern in image configuration coated on a metal drum is electrostatically charged and thereafter developed with developer powder. The resulting powder image on the insulating pattern is electrostatically transferred to a receiving member. The insulating pattern is cleaned and recycled.
- U.S.-A Pat. No. 3,967,818 to R. Gundlach, issued July 6, 1976--A duplicating system for producing collated copy sets for precollated information is disclosed.
- a xeroprinting master may be utilized as a master scroll that can move in reverse directions. The master is electrostatically charged and developed and the resulting toner image is transferred to a receiving member.
- U.S.-A Pat. No. 3,765,330 to R. Gundlach, issued Oct. 16, 1973--A xeroprinting system which utilizes a printing member comprising a conductive substrate having raised and recessed areas of the same material and a layer of electrically resistive material contacting the relief areas and spanning without touching the recessed areas.
- a uniform charge is applied to the printing member to form discharged areas where the resistive material contacts the relief areas and charged areas where the resistive material spans the recessed areas.
- the printing member is then developed and the developed image is electrostatically transferred to a transfer sheet.
- a photosensitive member which includes an electriclly conductive substrate, a first photoconductive layer applied on the substrate, a charge retentive insulating layer applied on the first photoconductive layer and a second conductive layer applied on the charge retentive layer.
- the photosensitive member is uniformly charged to a negative polarity and exposed to visible light.
- An image of a document to be copied is projected while the photosensitive member is positively charged.
- the photosensitive member is then exposed to visible and ultraviolet light, thereby trapping latent charged images across the charge retentive layer.
- U.S.-A Pat. No. 4,518,668 to Nakayama, issued May 21, 1985--A method is disclosed for preparing a lithographic printing plate.
- a light sensitive material comprising a light sensitive layer and a photoconductive insulating layer is imagewise exposed and processed to form an electrostatic latent image on the photoconductive insulating layer.
- the image is then developed by charged opaque developer particles. This developed image is then used for contact exposure of the underlying light sensitive lithographic master layer.
- U.S.-A Pat. No. 4,520,089 to Tazuki et al, issued May 28, 1985--An electrophotographic offset master comprising a base paper, one side of which is provided with a back coat layer made of sericite. Another side of the base paper is provided with a precoat layer of a photoconductor and an adhesive.
- the master is prepared by imagewise exposure of the photoconductor followed by subsequent development and fixation thereof.
- an improved imaging member comprising a substrate, a conductive layer, an intermediate layer comprising an adhesive layer, a charge transport spacing layer comprising an electrically insulating film forming binder or a combination of the adhesive layer and the charge transport spacing layer, and an imaging layer comprising an electrically insulating softenable layer overlying the charge transport spacing layer, the electrically insulating softenable layer comprising charge transport molecules and a fracturable layer of closely spaced electrically photosensitive migration marking particles located substantially at or near the imaging surface of the electrically insulating layer, the charge transport molecules in the electrically insulating softenable layer being capable of increasing charge injection from the electrically photosensitive migration marking material to the electrically insulating softenable layer, being capable of transporting charge to the substrate and being dissolved or molecularly dispersed in the electrically insulating softenable layer, the charge transport molecules in the charge transport layer being capable of transporting the charge carriers injected from the imaging layer to the substrate and being dissolved or mole
- the imaged member of this invention may be prepared by providing a migration imaging member comprising a substrate and an electrically insulating softenable layer on the substrate, the softenable layer comprising a charge transport molecule and a fracturable layer of electrically photosensitive migration marking material located substantially at or near the surface of the softenable layer spaced from the substrate, the softenable layer having a thickness of between about 3 micrometer and about 30 micrometers, and more preferably between about 4 micrometers and about 25 micrometers, the charge transport molecule being capable of increasing charge injection from the electrically photosensitive migration marking material to the softenable layer, being capable of transporting charge to the substrate and being dissolved or molecularly dispersed in the softenable layer; electrostatically charging the member to deposit a uniform charge on the member; exposing the member to activating radiation in an imagewise pattern prior to substantial decay of the uniform charge whereby the electrically photosensitive migration marking material struck by the activating radiation photogenerates charge carriers; decreasing the resistance to migration of migration marking marking material in the softenable
- the imaged member of this invention comprises a substrate and an electrically softenable layer having an imaging surface overlying the substrate, the electrically insulating softenable layer comprising charge transport molecules and in at least one region of the electrically insulating layer a fracturable layer of closely spaced electrically photosensitive migration making particles in an imagewise pattern located substantially at or near the imaging surface of the electrically insulating layer, the imagewise pattern being substantially absorbing and opaque to activating electromagnetic radiation in the spectral region in which the migration marking particles photogenerate charge carriers, exhibiting substantial photodischarge when electrostatically charged and exposed to activating electromagnetic radiation, and in at least one other region of the electrically insulating layer agglomerated and coalesced electrically photosensitive migration marking particles located substantially within the electrically insulating layer in a pattern adjacent to and complementary with the imagewise pattern of the closely spaced electrically photosensitive migration marking particles, the size of agglomerated and coalesced electrically photosensitive migration marking particles being substantially larger and the number of agglomerated and coal
- This imaged member can be used as a xeroprinting master in an imaging process comprising depositing a uniform electrostatic charge on the entire imaging surface of the xeroprinting master; uniformly exposing the electrically insulating layer to activating electromagnetic radiation prior to substantial decay of the uniform electrostatic charge to substantially discharge the imaging surface overlying the imagewise pattern of the closely spaced electrically photosensitive migration marking particles and to form an electrostatic latent image on the areas of the imaging surface overlying the complementary pattern of the layer of agglomerated and coalesced electrically photosensitive migration marking particles; developing the imaging surface with electrostatically attractable toner particles to form a toner image corresponding to the imagewise pattern or the complementary pattern; and transferring the toner image to a receiving member.
- FIG. 1 is a partially schematic, cross-sectional view of one embodiment of a layered xeroprinting master precursor member
- FIG. 2 is a partially schematic, cross-sectional view of another embodiment of a layered xeroprinting master precursor member
- FIG. 3 is a partially schematic, cross-sectional view of still another embodiment of a layered xeroprinting master precursor member
- FIG. 4 is a partially schematic, cross-sectional view of a conventional xeroprinting master
- FIG. 5 is a partially schematic, cross-sectional view of a conventional xeroprinting master receiving an electrostatic charge
- FIG. 6 is a partially schematic, cross-sectional view of a conventional xeroprinting master being developed
- FIG. 7 is a partially schematic, cross-sectional view of a conventional xeroprinting master from which a toner image is being transferred to a receiving member;
- FIG. 8 is a partially schematic, cross-sectional view of a conventional xeroprinting master receiving an electrostatic charge to illustrate the effects of fringing electric field;
- FIG. 9 is a partially schematic, cross-sectional view of a xeroprinting master precursor member of this invention receiving an electrostatic charge
- FIG. 10 is a partially schematic, cross-sectional view of a xeroprinting master precursor member of this invention being exposed to activating electromagnetic radiation in image configuration;
- FIG. 11 is a partially schematic, cross-sectional view of a xeroprinting master precursor member of this invention being exposed to solvent vapor;
- FIG. 12 is a partially schematic, cross-sectional view of a xeroprinting master precursor member of this invention being exposed to heat;
- FIG. 13 is a partially schematic, cross-sectional view of a xeroprinting master of this invention receiving an electrostatic charge
- FIG. 14 is a partially schematic, cross-sectional view of a xeroprinting master of this invention being uniformly exposed to activating electromagnetic radiation;
- FIG. 15 is a partially schematic, cross-sectional view of a xeroprinting master of this invention being developed
- FIG. 16 is a partially schematic, cross-sectional view of a xeroprinting master of this invention from which a toner image is being transferred to a receiving member;
- FIG. 17 is a partially schematic, cross-sectional view of a xeroprinting master of this invention is being exposed to strong erasing electromagnetic radiation;
- the xeroprinting master precursor member 10 comprises substrate 12 having an optional conductive layer 14, an optional charge transport spacing layer 16 comprising a film forming polymer and a charge transport material, and a softenable layer 18 coated thereon, softenable layer 18 comprising a charge transport material and a fracturable layer of migration marking material 20 contiguous with the upper surface of softenable layer 18.
- the particles of marking material 20 appear to be in contact with each oter in the Figures due to the physical limitations of such schematic illustrations. However, the particles of marking material 20 are actually spaced less than a micrometer apart from each other.
- the supporting substrate 12 may be either electrically insulating or electrically conductive.
- the supporting substrate 12 may be an electrically conductive metal drum or plate.
- the electrically conductive substrate may comprise a supporting substrate 12 having a conductive coating 14 coated onto the surface of the supporting substrate, e.g. an aluminized polyester film, upon which the optional charge transport spacing layer 16 or softenable layer 18 is also coated.
- the substrate 12 may be opaque, translucent, or transparent in various embodiments, including embodiments wherein the electrically conductive layer 14 coated thereon may itself be partially or substantially transparent.
- the fracturable layer of marking material 20 contiguous the upper surface of the softenable layer 18 may be slightly, partially, substantially or entirely embedded in the softenable material at the upper surface of the softenable layer 18.
- FIG. 2 another multi-layered overcoated embodiment of a xeroprinting master precursor member is shown wherein supporting substrate 12 has conductive coating 14, optional adhesive layer 22, optional charge transport layer 16 and softenable layer 18 coated thereon.
- the migration marking material 20 is initially arranged in a fracturable layer contiguous the upper surface of softenable material layer 18.
- a xeroprinting master precursor member merely comprises a supporting substrate 12, a conductive layer 14 and coated softenable layer 18.
- the migration marking material 20 is initially arranged in a fracturable layer contiguous the upper surface of softenable material layer 18.
- the embodiments illustrated in FIGS. 1 2 and 3 may also include an optional overcoating layer which is coated over the softenable layer 18.
- the overcoating layer may comprise an abhesive or release material or may comprise a plurality of layers in which the outer layer comprises an abhesive or release material.
- the xeroprinting master precursor members illustrated in FIGS. 1, 2 and 3 are considerably different from conventional xeroprinting master precursor members in the way that they are structured, prepared and used.
- a typical prior art xeroprinting master is often prepared by removing materials from the non-imaged area by photomechanical techniques.
- this imaged master 24 is classically an electrical conductor 26 with an imagewise pattern of insulating material 28 made by photomechanical or xerographic techniques. It has different charge acceptance in the insulating imaged areas 30 and electrically conductive non-imaged areas 32.
- the xeroprinting master 24 is then charged by means of a suitable device such as a corotron 34.
- a suitable device such as a corotron 34.
- the sharp boundary between the insulating image areas and the conducting background areas produces strong fringe fields as charges build up on the insulating image surface, deflecting further ions to the conducting background and preventing high charge density to the boundary.
- the deposited charge remains trapped only on the imagewise pattern of insulating material 28.
- the non-image areas were covered with a resistive films having a charge relaxation time constant longer than the corona charging time, but shorter than the time between charging and development.
- This electrostatic image may then be toned by conventional xerographic develoment techniques which transorts toner particles charged to a polarity opposite the polarity of charge on the imagewise pattern of insulating material 28 thereby forming deposited toner images 38 and 40 as illustrated in FIG. 6.
- the deposited toner images 38 and 40 are transferred from imaged master 24 to a suitable receiving sheet 42, e.g. paper, by applying a uniform charge to the rear surface of receiving sheet 42 by means of a suitable charging device such as corotron 44.
- a suitable charging device such as corotron 44.
- the transferred toner image may be fixed by well known techniques such as fusing, laminating and the like.
- the upper surfaces of electrical conductor 26 and imagewise pattern of insulating material 28 may thereafter be cleaned, if desired.
- the charging, toning, transfering, and cleaning steps are repeated at high speed. In principle, it is possible to retain much of the simplicity, stability and quality of the xerographic process, without the need for repeated image exposure. As an additional bonus, it may not be necessary to employ a cleaning step, since the same area is repeatedly toned.
- conventional toners can be used, avoiding the problem of lack of color saturation which is encountered with comparable schemes employing, for example, magnetography.
- xeroprinting has in practice been a classical problem in electrophotographic technology. Despite much effort, dating from the early days of xerographing, it has proved challenging to design a process which produces high quality prints.
- the problem with this xeroprinting master is that the insulator must be reasonably thick, in order for the voltage on the xeroprinting master to be high enough for good xerographic development.
- fringing electric fields are set up between electrical conductor 46 and imagewise pattern of insulating material 48. These fringing fields extend over significant distances and tend to deflect further incoming ions 46.
- the resultant non-uniform charging of imagewise pattern of insulating material 48 seriously limits the resolution of the final prints and prevents use of the process for high quality purposes.
- the resolution can be improved with special techniques, but they are too critical for practical use.
- FIGS. 9 through 12 The steps for preparation of an improved xeroprinting master of this invention are shown in FIGS. 9 through 12.
- a xeroprinting master precursor member 50 comprising an electrically grounded conductive substrate 52, charge transport layer 54, softenable layer 56 and fracturable layer of migration marking material 58 is uniformly charged positively by means of a corona charging means 60.
- the uniformly charged xeroprinting master precursor member 50 is thereafter imagewise exposed to activating illumination 62 as illustrated in FIG. 10.
- the light exposed xeroprinting master precursor member 50 is then exposed to solvent vapor 64 as shown in FIG. 11.
- the developed image in the final xeroprinting master 72 is an optically sign-reversed image of an original (if a conventional light-lens exposure system is utilized) exhibiting very low background density D min .
- the prepared xeroprinting master 72 can thereafter be utilized in a xeroprinting process.
- the use of xeroprinting master 72 in a xeroprinting process is shown in FIGS. 13 through 17.
- the softenable layer 56 of xeroprinting master 72 is enlarged in FIGS. 13 through 17 to facilitate illustration of the the xeroprinting process.
- xeroprinting master 72 is uniformly and positively charged by a corona charging device 74. Unlike most earlier approaches illustrated in FIG. 8, however, the xeroprinting master 72 is uniformly insulating in the dark, so there is nothing to cause fringing fields or to defocus the charging ions.
- the charged xeroprinting master 72 is then uniformly flash exposed to light energy 76 as shown in FIG. 14.
- uniform exposure to light energy causes the portions of the imaging surface of softenable layer 56 overlying the D max area to discharge substantially and the portions overlying the D min area (agglomerates or spheres 70) to discharge to a substantially lesser extent, thereby forming an electrostatic latent image on the xeroprinting master as shown in FIG. 15.
- the D min regions (agglomerated and coalesced electrically photosensitive migration marking particles) in the xeroprinting master of the present invention exhibits the characteristics of a relatively poor or "spoiled" photoreceptor and the D max regions exhibit the characteristics of a relatively good photoreceptor.
- the words “poor” and “good” are intended here to described two photoreceptors whose background potential differ by at least 30 percent and preferably at least 40 percent of the initially applied surface potential upon uniform charging and uniform exposure, the good photoreceptor being the one exhibiting the lower background potential.
- the uniform charging and subsequent uniform illumination of the xeroprinting master of this invention causes photodischarge to occur predominately in the D max region of the image.
- the electrostatic latent image 78 is then developed with toner particles 80 to form a toner image corresponding to the electrostatic latent image overlying the D min area.
- the toner particles 80 carry a negative electrostatic charge and are attracted to the oppositely charged portions overlying the D min area (agglomerates or spheres 70).
- the toner may be deposited in the discharged areas by employing toner particles having the same polarity as the charged areas (positive in the embodiment shown in FIG. 15). The developer will then be repelled by the charges overlying the D min area and deposit in the discharged areas (D max area).
- Well known electrically biased development electrodes may also be employed, if desired, to direct toner particles to either the charged or discharged areas of the imaging surface.
- the deposited toner image is transferred to a receiving member 82, such as paper, by applying an electrostatic charge to the rear surface of the receiving member by a means of corona device 84.
- the transferred toner image is thereafter fused by conventional means (not shown) such as an oven fuser.
- the xeroprinting master can be cleaned, if desired, to remove any residual toner and then erased either by strong electromagnetic radiation 85 as shown in FIG. 17 or by an AC corotron.
- the developing, transfer, fusing, cleaning and erasure steps may be identical to that conventionally used in xerographic imaging.
- the supporting substrate may be either electrically insulating or electrically conductive.
- the substrate and the entire xeroprinting master precursor member which it supports may be in any suitable form including a web, foil, laminate or the like, strip, sheet, coil, cylinder, drum, endless belt, endless mobius strip, circular disc or other shape.
- the present invention is particularly suitable for use in any of these configurations.
- Typical supporting substrates include aluminized polyester, polyester films coated with transparent conductive polymers, metal plates, drums or the like.
- the electrically conductive substrate may comprise a supporting substrate having a conductive layer or coating coated onto the surface of the supporting substrate. e.g. an aluminized polyester film, upon which the optional charge transport spacing layer or softenable layer is also coated.
- the substrate may be opaque, translucent, or transparent in various embodiments, including embodiments wherein the electrically conductive layer coated thereon may itself be partially or substantially transparent.
- the conductive layer may be, for example, a thin vacuum deposited metal or metal oxide coating, a metal foil, electrically conductive particles dispersed in a binder and the like.
- Typical metals and metal oxides include aluminum, indium, gold, tin oxide, indium tin oxide, silver, nickel, and the like.
- any suitable adhesive material may be employed in the optional adhesive layer of this invention.
- Typical adhesive materials include copolymers of styrene and an acrylate, polyester resin such as DuPont 49000 (available from E. I. duPont & de Nemours Co.), copolymer of acrylonitrile and vinylidene chloride, polyvinyl acetate, polyvinyl butyral and the like and mixtures thereof.
- DuPont 49000 available from E. I. duPont & de Nemours Co.
- copolymer of acrylonitrile and vinylidene chloride polyvinyl acetate, polyvinyl butyral and the like and mixtures thereof.
- it should form a uniform and continuous layer having a thickness of less than about 0.5 micrometer to ensure satisfactory discharge during the xeroprinting process. It may also optionally include charge transport molecules.
- the optional charge transport spacing layer 16 can perform a number of important functions including transport of the injected charge from the imaging softenable layer to the conducting layer; acting as an interfacial adhesive between the imaging softenable layer and the conductive layer or substrate (if the substrate is conductive and no separate conductive layer is employed); and increasing the spacing between the imaging surface and conductive layer to increase the electrostatic constrast potential of the electrostatic image.
- the present invention allows maximum flexibility in choosing appropriate materials to optimize the mechanical, chemical, electrical, imaging and xeroprinting properties of the imaging member.
- the electrostatic contrast potential needed for good quality prints depends on specific kind of developers (for example dry vs. liquid) being used and the development speed required for a particular application. Generally speaking, while a contrast potential in the range of 50-500 volts is adequate for liquid development system, a contrast potential in the range of 200-800 volts is desired for dry toner development system. It should be noted that the electrostatic contrast potential of the electrostatic image of the present invention depends on the combined thickness of the imaging softenable layer and the optional charge transport spacing layer. For dry development system, their combined thickness is generally in the range of from about 4 micrometers to about 30 micrometers, the thickness of the optional charge transport spacing layer being in the range of 2 micrometers to 25 micrometers.
- Somewhat thinner layers may be utilized, at the expense of decrease in print density and slower development speed. Thicker layers may also be used, but further increase in contrast potential does not result in further improved image quality and the time required for removal of solvents from layers (either during manufacturing or during imaging) may become impractical and the trapped solvent in the layers may cause blocking. Excellent results are achieved with a combined thickness between about 5 micrometers and about 25 micrometers, the thickness of the optional charge transport spacing layer being in the range of 3 micrometers to 20 micrometers. For liquid development system, their combined thickness is generally in the range of from about 3 micrometers to about 25 micrometers, the thickness of the optional charge transport layer being in the range of about 1 micrometer to about 20 micrometers.
- a xeroprinting master then needs to be charged to an initial surface potential of about 400 volts. Assuming the xeroprinting master is charged with an applied field of 100 v/ ⁇ m, a total thickness of about 4 ⁇ m would satisfy the requirements for both dry and liquid developers.
- both the softenable layer and the charge transport layer contain charge transport material to enable efficient charge transport
- the primary role of the charge transport layer is to transport charge and act as a spacing layer while the role of the softenable layer is to both transport charge and to ensure proper charge injection processes between the migration marking material and the softenable layer in the formation of the visible image.
- the softenable layer and the charge transport spacing layer may have the same or different binder material and/or charge transport material in order to optimize the mechanical, chemical, electrical, imaging and xeroprinting properties of the imaging member. For example, some materials e.g.
- a styrene/hexylmethacrylate copolymer exhibits excellent migration imaging properties, but insufficient flexibility (especially when its thickness is greatly increased to beyond 10 micrometers) and adhesive properties.
- other materials e.g. polycarbonate, exhibits very good flexibility and adhesive properties, but relatively poor migration imaging properties.
- a separate charge transport spacing layer between the softenable layer and the substrate one can choose, for example, a 2 micrometers thick styrene/hexylmethacrylate for the softenable layer and a 10 micrometers thick polycarbonate for the charge transport spacing layer to optimize its imaging, xeroprinting as well as mechanical properties.
- the optional charge transport spacing layer 16 comprises any suitable film forming binder material.
- Typical film forming binder materials include styrene acrylate copolymers, polycarbonates, copolycarbonates, polyesters, co-polyesters, polyurethanes, polyvinyl acetate, polyvinyl butyral, polystyrenes, alkyd substituted polystyrenes, styrene-olefin copolymers, styrene-co-n-hexylmethacrylate, a custom synthesized 80/20 mole percent copolymer of styrene and hexylmethacrylate having an intrinsic viscosity of 0.179 dl/gm; other copolymers of styrene and hexylmethacrylate, styrene-vinyltoluene copolymer, polyalpha-methylstyrene, mixtures and copolymers thereof.
- the above group of materials is not intended to be limiting, but merely illustrative of materials suitable for film forming binder material in the optional charge transport spacing layer.
- the film forming binder material is typically substantially electrically insulating and does not adversely chemically react during the xeroprinting master making and xeroprinting steps of the present invention.
- the optional charge transport spacing layer has been described as coated on a substrate, in some embodiments, the charge transport spacing layer itself may have sufficient strength and integrity to be substantially self supporting and may, if desired, be brought into contact with a suitable conductive substrate during the imaging process.
- a uniform deposit of electrostatic charge of suitable polarity may be substituted for a conductive layer.
- a uniform deposit of electrostatic charge of suitable polarity on the exposed surface of the charge transport spacing layer may be substituted for a conductive layer to facilitate the application of electrical migration forces to the migration layer. This technique of "double charging" is well known in the art.
- Charge transport molecules for the charge transport spacing layer are described in greater detail below in the description of the softenable layer.
- the specific charge transport molecule utilized in the charge transport spacing layer of any given master may be identical to or different from the charge transport molecule employed in the adjacent softenable layer.
- the concentration of the charge transport molecule utilized in the charge transport spacing layer of any given master may be identical to or different from the concentration of charge transport molecule employed in the adjacent softenable layer.
- the amount of charge transport material used may vary depending upon the particular charge transport material and its compatibility (e.g. solubility) in the continuous insulating film forming binder.
- the image forming softenable layer is a layer in which images of migration marking material are formed.
- the image forming softenable layer comprises closely spaced, submicron sized migration marking material embedded just below the surface of an electrically insulating softenable material such as a matrix polymer.
- the softenable material is also doped with charge transport materials which may be the same or different from those used in the charge transport spacing layer.
- the migration marking material is preferably electrically photosensitive, photoconductive, or of any other suitable combination of materials.
- Typical migration marking materials are disclosed, for example, in U.S.-A Pat. No. 4,536,457, U.S.-A Pat. No. 4,536,458, U.S.-A Pat. No. 3,909,262, and U.S.-A Pat. No. 3,975,195, the disclosures of these patents being incorporated herein in their entirety.
- Specific examples of migration marking materials include selenium and selenium-tellurium alloys.
- the preferred migration marking materials are generally spherical in shape and submicron in size.
- the migration marking materials should be particulate and closely spaced from each other. These spherical migration marking materials are well known in the migration imaging art. Excellent results are achieved with spherical migration marking materials ranging in size from about 0.2 micrometer to about 0.4 micrometer and more preferably from about 0.3 micrometer to about 0.4 micrometer embedded as a subsurface monolayer in the external surface (surface spaced from the substrate if an overcoating is employed) of the softenable layer.
- the spheres of the migration marking material are preferably spaced from each other by a distance of less than about one-half the diameter of the spheres for maximum optical density and to facilitate agglomeration and coalescence of the migration marking material during the heating step.
- the spheres are also preferably from about 0.01 micrometer to about 0.1 micrometer below the outer surface (surface spaced from the substrate if an overcoating is employed) of the softenable layer.
- An especially suitable process for depositing the migration marking material in the softenable layer is described in U.S.-A Pat. No. 4,482,622 issued to P. Soden and P. Vincett, the disclosure of which is incorporated herein in its entirety.
- the migration marking material have a sufficiently low melting point that its self-diffusion is rapid at the temperatures used during deposition. The deposition temperatures must not exceed the degradation point of the softenable material, the substrate or any other component of the migration imaging member.
- the word "rapid" is intended to mean that particles of migration marking material which are in contact should coalesce preferably within a fraction of a second or at most within about two minutes.
- the softenable material may be any suitable material which may be softened by solvent vapors.
- the softenable material is typically substantially electrically insulating and does not chemically react during the master preparative steps and xeroprinting steps of the present invention.
- the softenable layer has been described as coated on a substrate, in some embodiments, the softenable layer may itself have sufficient strength and integrity to be substantially self supporting. Should an attached conductive layer not be utilized, uniform deposit of electrostatic charges of suitable polarities on the exposed surfaces of the softenable or optional overcoating layer may be used to facilitate the application of electrical migration forces to the imaging member. This technique of "double charging" is well known in the art.
- the softenable layer may itself be brought into contact with a suitable conductive surface during the master making and xeroprinting processes.
- Typical solvent swellable, softenable material may be utilized in the softenable layer.
- Typical swellable, softenable materials include styrene acrylate copolymers, polystyrenes, alkyd substituted polystyrenes, styrene-olefin copolymers, styrene-co-n-hexylmethacrylate, a custom synthesized 80/20 mole percent copolymer of styrene and hexylmethacrylate having an intrinsic viscosity of 0.179 dl/gm, other copolymers of styrene and hexylmethacrylate, styrene-vinyltoluene copolymer, polyalpha-methylstyrene, co-polyesters, polyesters, polyurethane, polycarbonate, co-polycarbonates, mixtures and copolymers thereof.
- the above group of materials is not intended to be
- charge transport material capable of acting as a softenable layer material or which is soluble or dispersible on a molecular scale in the softenable layer material may be utilized in the softenable layer of this invention.
- the charge transport material is defined as an electrically insulating film-forming binder or a soluble or molecularly dispersable material dissolved or molecularly dispersed in an electrically insulating film-forming binder which is capable of improving the charge injection process (for at least one sign of charge) from the marking material into the softenable layer (preferably prior to, or at least in the early stages of, development by softening of the softenable layer), the improvement being by reference to an electrically inert insulating softenable layer.
- the charge transport materials may be hole transport materials and/or electron transport materials, that is, they may improve the injection of holes and/or electrons from the marking material into the softenable layer. Where only one polarity of injection is improved, the sign of ionic charge used to initially sensitize the migration marking member to light for the purposes of this invention is most commonly the same as the sign of charge whose injection is improved.
- the selection of a combination of a specific transport material with a specific marking material should therefore be such that the injection of holes and/or electrons from the marking material into the softenable layer is improved compared to a softenable layer which is free of any transport material.
- the combination of the charge transport material and the insulating film-forming binder should be such that the charge transport material may be incorporated into the film-forming binder in sufficient concentration levels while still remaining in solution or molecularly dispersed. If desired, the insulating film-forming binder need not be utilized where the charge transport material is a polymeric film-forming material.
- charge transporting material Any suitable charge transporting material may be used.
- Charge transporting materials are well known in the art. Typical charge transporting materials include the following:
- Typical diamine transport molecules include N,N'-diphenyl-N,N'-bis(3"-methylphenyl)-(1,1'-biphenyl)-4,4'-diamine, N,N'-diphenyl-N,N'-bis(4-methylphenyl)-(1,1'-biphenyl)-4,4'-diamine, N,N'-diphenyl-N,N'-bis(2-methylphenyl)-(1,1'-biphenyl)-4,4'-diamine, N,N'-diphenyl-N,N'-bis(3-ethylphenyl)-(1,1'-biphenyl)-4,4'-diamine, N,N'-diphenyl-N,N'-bis(4-ethylphenyl)-(1,1'-biphenyl)-4,4'-diamine, N,N'-diphenyl-N,N'-bis
- Typical pyrazoline transport molecules include 1-[lepidyl-(2)[-3-(p-diethylaminophenyl)-5-(p-diethylaminophenyl)pyrazoline, 1-[quinolyl-(2)]-3-(p-diethylaminophenyl)-5-(p-diethylaminophenyl)pyrazoline, 1-[pyridyl-(2)]-3-(p-diethylaminostyryl)-5-(p-diethylaminophenyl)pyrazoline, 1-[6-methoxypyridyl-(2)]-3-(p-diethylaminostyryl)-5-(p-diethylaminophenyl)pyrazoline, 1-phenyl-3-[p-dimethylamin
- Typical fluorene charge transport molecules include 9-(4'-dimethylaminobenzylidene)fluorene, 9-(4'-methoxybenzylidene)fluorene, 9-(2',4'-dimethoxybenzylidene)fluorene, 2-nitro-9-benzylidene-fluorene, 2-nitro-9-(4'-diethylaminobenzylidene)fluorene and the like.
- Oxadiazole transport molecules such as 2,5-bis(4-diethylaminophenyl)-1,3,4-oxadiazole, pyrazoline, imidazole, triazole, and the like.
- Other typical oxadiazole transport molecules are described, for example, in German Pat. Nos. 1,058,836, 1,060,260 and 1,120,875.
- Hydrazone transport molecules such as p-diethylamino benzaldehyde-(diphenyl hydrazone)), o-ethoxy-p-diethylaminobenzaldehyde-(dephenylhydrazone), o-methyl-p-diethylaminobenzaldehyde-(diphenylhydrazone), o-methyl-p-dimethylaminobenzaldehyde-(diphenylhydrazone), 1-naphthalenecarbaldehyde 1-methyl-1-phenylhydrazone, 1-naphthalenecarbaldehyde, 1,1-phenylhydrazone, 4-methoxynaphthlene-1-carbaldehyde 1-methyl-1-phenylhydrazone and the like.
- Carbazole phenyl hydrazone transport molecules such as 9-ethylcarbazole-3-carboaldehyde-1-methyl-1-phenylhydrazone, 9-ethylcarbazole-3-carbaldehyde-1-methyl-1-phenylhydrazone, 9-ethylcarbazole-3-carbaldehyde-1-ethyl-1-phenylhydrazone, 9-ethylcarbazole-3-carbaldehyde-1-ethyl-1-benzyl-1-phenylhydrazone, 9-ethylcarbazole-3-carbaldehyde-1,1-diphenylhydrazone, and the like.
- Other typical carbazole phenyl hydrazone transport molecules are described in U.S.-A Pat. No. 4,256,821 and U.S.-A Pat. No. 4,297,426.
- Vinyl-aromatic polymers such as polyvinyl anthracene, polyacenaphthylene; formaldehyde condensation products with various aromatics such as condensates of formaldehyde and 3-bromopyrene; 2,4,7-trinitrofluorenone, and 3,6-dinitro-N-t-butyl-naphthalimide as described in U.S.-A Pat. No. 3,972,717.
- Oxadiazole derivatives such as 2,5-bis-(p-diethylaminophenyl)oxadiazole-1,3,4 described in U.S.-A Pat. No. 3,895,944.
- Tri-substituted methanes such as alkyl-bis(N,N-dialkylaminoaryl)methane, cycloalkyl-bis(N,N-dialkylaminoaryl)methane, and cycloalkenyl-bis(N,N-dialkylaminoaryl)methane as described in U.S.-A Pat. No. 3,820,989.
- 9-fluorenylidene methane derivatives having the formula: ##STR1## wherein X and Y are cyano groups or alkoxycarbonyl groups, A, B, and W are electron withdrawing groups independently selected from the group consisting of acyl, alkoxycarbonyl, nitro, alkylaminocarbonyl and derivatives thereof, m is a number of from 0 to 2, and n is the number 0 or 1 as described in copending in U.S.-A Pat. No. 4,474,865.
- Typical 9-fluorenylidene methane derivatives encompassed by the above formula include (4-n-butoxycarbonyl-9-fluorenylidene)malonontrile, (4-phenethoxycarbonyl-9-fluorenylidene)malonontrile, (4-carbitoxy-9-fluorenylidene)malonontrile, (4-n-butoxycarbonyl-2,7-dinitro-9-fluorenylidene)malonate, and the like.
- charge transport materials include as poly-1-vinylpyrene, poly-9-vinylanthracene, poly-9-(4-pentenyl)-carbazole, poly-9-(5-hexyl)carbazole, polymethylene pyrene, poly-1-(pyrenyl)butadiene, polymers such as alkyl, nitro, amino, halogen, and hydroxy substitute polymers such as poly-3-amino carbazole, 1,3-dibromo-poly-N-vinyl carbazole and 3,6-dibromo-poly-N-vinyl carbazole and numerous other transparent organic polymeric or non-polymeric transport materials as described in U.S.-A Pat. No. 3,870,516.
- the amount of charge transport material which is used may vary depending upon the particular charge transport material and its compatibility (e.g. solubility) in the continuous insulating film forming binder phase of the softenable layer and the like. Satisfactory results are obtained using between about 8 percent to about 50 percent by weight charge transport material based on the total weight of the softenable layer.
- a particularly preferred charge transport molecule is one having the general formula: ##STR2## wherein X, Y and Z are selected from the group consisting of hydrogen, an alkyl group having from 1 to about 20 carbon atoms and chlorine and at least one of X, Y and Z is independently selected to be an alkyl group having from 1 to about 20 carbon atoms or chlorine. If Y and Z are hydrogen, the compound may be named N,N'-bis(alkylphenyl)-[1,1'-biphenyl]-4,4'-diamine wherein the alkyl is, for example, methyl, ethyl, propyl, n-butyl, etc.
- the compound may be N,N'-diphenyl-N,N'-bis(chlorophenyl)-[1,1'-biphenyl]-4,4'-diamine.
- Excellent results including exceptional storage stability may be achieved when the softenable layer contains between about 10 percent to about 40 percent by weight of these diamine compounds based on the total weight of the softenable layer.
- Optimum results are achieved when the softenable layer contains between about 16 percent to about 40 percent by weight of N,N'-diphenyl-N,N'-bis(3"-methylphenyl)-(1,1'-diamine based on the total weight of the softenable layer.
- the softenable layer contains less than about 8 percent by weight of these diamine compounds based on the total weight of the softenable layer, D min becomes noticeably higher and the extent of photodischarge in the D max area may become less because of inefficient charge transport, resulting in reduced electrostatic contrast potential for xeroprinting.
- concentration of the charge transport molecule is more than about 50 percent by weight of these diamine compounds based on the total weight of the softenable layer, the mechanical strength, flexibility and integrity of the softenable layer are somewhat degraded and charge dark decay may become higher. Moreover, very large concentrations of these diamine compounds may cause crystallization of the compounds in the softenable layer.
- the charge transport material may be incorporated into the softenable layer and optional charge transport spacing layer by any suitable technique.
- it may be mixed with the softenable layer or spacing layer components by dissolution in a common solvent.
- a mixture of solvents for the softenable or spacing layer may be used to facilitate mixing and coating.
- the optional adhesive layer, optional charge transport spacing layer and softenable layer may be applied to the substrate by any conventional coating process.
- appropriate measures should be taken to ensure that coating of one layer does not result in dissolution of the underlying layer. This can be accomplished by appropriate choice of the film-forming binder materials and their solvent or mixture of solvents. Typical coating processes include draw bar, spraying, extrusion, dip, gravure roll, wire wound rod, air knife coating and the like.
- the thicknesses of the adhesive and charge transport spacing layers have been discussed above. The thickness of the deposited softenable layer depends on whether a charge transport spacing layer is used or not.
- the thickness of the deposited softenable layer after any drying or curing step is preferably in the range of about 2-5 micrometers to provided a combined thickness in the range of about 3-30 micrometers. Thickness less than about 2 micrometers for the softenable layer may result in insufficient electrostatic contrast potential for development of the latent image during xeroprinting.
- the use of a charge transport layer renders the use of a softenable layer thicker than about 5 micrometers unnecessary.
- the thickness of the softenable layer is preferably in the range of about 3 -30 micrometers to give sufficiently high electrostatic contrast potential to suit a particular application. Layers thicker than about 30 micrometers may also be utilized, but do not give further improvement in print quality.
- any suitable solvent for the softenable material in the softenable layer may be employed. Upon contact, the solvent should soften the softenable layer sufficiently to allow the exposed migration marking material to retain a slight net charge which allows only slight agglomeration, coalescence or combination thereof of the exposed migration marking material to occur during the subsequent decreasing the resistance step and/or which allows, at most, only slight migration in depth of migration marking material towards the substrate in image configuration, and upon further decreasing the resistance to migration of marking material in the softenable layer to allow non-exposed marking material to substantially agglomerate and coalesce.
- Typical solvents includes various ketones, aliphatic esters, halogenated aliphatics and their mixtures.
- Softening of the softenable layer sufficiently to allow slight migration in depth of migration marking material towards the substrate in image configuration may be effected by contact with vapors or liquids of solvents or mixtures of solvents.
- the mixtures of solvents may comprise a mixture of poor solvents and good solvents for the softenable material to control the degree of softening of the softenable material within a given period of time.
- Typical combinations of softenable materials and solvents or combinations of solvents include styrene ethylacrylate copolymer and methyl ethyl ketone solvent, styrene hexylmethacrylate copolymer and methyl ethyl ketone solvent, styrene hexylmethacrylate copolymer and ethyl acetate solvent, styrene hexylmethacrylate copolymer and di-ethyl ketone solvent, styrene hexylmethacrylate copolymer and methylene chloride solvent, styrene butymethacrylate and 1,1,1 trichlorethane solvent, styrene hexylmethacrylate copolymer and mixture of toluene and isopropanol solvents, styrene butadiene copolymer and mixture of ethyl acetate
- the overcoating layer should be permeable to the vapour of the solvent used and additional vapour treatment time should be allowed so that the solvent vapour can soften the softenable layer sufficiently to allow the exposed migration marking material to retain a slight net charge which allows only slight agglomeration, coalescence or combination thereof of the exposed migration marking material to occur during the subsequent decreasing the resistance step and/or which allows, at most, only slight migration in depth of migration marking material towards the substrate in image configuration, and upon further decreasing the resistance to migration of marking material in the softenable layer to allow non-exposed marking material to substantially agglomerate and coalesce.
- the optional overcoating layer may be substantially electrically insulating, or have any other suitable properties.
- the overcoating should be substantially transparent, at least in the spectral region where electromagnetic radiation is used for the imagewise exposure step in the master making process and for the uniform exposure step in the xeroprinting process.
- the overcoating layer is continuous and preferably of a thickness up to about 1-2 micrometers.
- the overcoating should have a thickness of between about about 0.1 micrometer and about 0.5 micrometer to minimize residual charge buildup. Overcoating layers greater than about 1 to 2 micrometers thick may also be used, but may cause cycle-up when multiple prints are made during xeroprinting because of the tendency of charge trapping to occur in the bulk of the overcoating layer.
- Typical overcoating materials include acrylic-styrene copolymers, methacrylate polymers, methacrylate copolymers, styrenebutylmethacrylate copolymers, butylmethacrylate resins, vinylchloride copolymers, fluorinated homo or copolymers, high molecular weight polyvinyl acetate, organosilicon polymers and copolymers, polyesters, polycarbonates, polyamides, polyvinyl toluene and the like.
- the overcoating layer should protect the softenable layer 18 in order to provide greater resistance to the adverse effects of abrasion during handling, master making and xeroprinting.
- the overcoating layer preferably adheres strongly to the softenable layer to minimize damage.
- the overcoating layer may also have abhesive properties at its outer surface which provide improved resistance to toner filming during toning, transfer and/or cleaning.
- the abhesive properties may be inherent in the overcoating layer or may be imparted to the overcoating layer by incorporation of another layer or component of abhesive material.
- These abhesive materials should not degrade the film forming components of the overcoating and should preferably have a surface energy of less than about 20 ergs/cm 2 .
- Typical abhesive materials include fatty acids, salts and esters, fluorocarbons, silicones and the like.
- the coatings may be applied by any suitable technique such as draw bar, spray, dip, melt, extrusion or gravure coating. It will be appreciated that these overcoating layers protect the xeroprinting master before imaging, during imaging, after the members have been imaged, and during xeroprinting.
- the master precursor members are developed after charging and imagewise exposure by applying solvent vapor followed by the application of heat. If the substrate 12, conductive layer 14 and adhesive layer 22 are light transmitting, these members, when imaged, may be highly visible light transmitting because of the selective agglomeration and coalescence of the migration marking material in the unexposed region.
- the vapor must be applied to the imaging member after imagewise exposure and prior to a final heat development step in order to achieve the exceptionally low D min for xeroprinting masters used in the xeroprinting process of this invention.
- a xeroprinting master precursor member comprising substrate 52 having conductive coating 54 thereon, softenable layer 56, a layer of migration marking material 58 contiguous the surface of the softenable layer 56.
- An electrical latent image may be formed on the imaging member by uniformly electrostatically charging the member and exposing the charged member to activating electromagnetic radiation prior to substantial dark decay of said uniform charge as shown in FIGS. 9 and 10.
- the imaging member is shown in FIG. 9 as being electrostatically positively charged with corona charging device 60.
- substrate 52 is conductive or has a conductive coating 54
- the conductive layer is grounded or maintained at a predetermined potential during electrostatic charging.
- Another method of electrically charging a member having an insulating rather than a conductive substrate is to electrostatically charge both sides of the member to surface potentials of opposite polarities.
- the charged unimaged member is shown being exposed to activating electromagnetic radiation 62 in area 63 thereby forming an electrostatic latent image upon the master.
- Exposure in an imagewise pattern to form an electrical latent image upon the xeroprinting master precursor member should be effected prior to substantial dark decay of the deposited surface charge. Satisfactory results may be obtained if the dark decay is less than about 50 percent of the initial charge.
- the expression "prior to substantial decay” is intended to mean the dark decay is less than 50 percent of the initial charge.
- a dark decay of less than about 25 percent of the initial charge is preferred for optimum imaging of the xeroprinting master precursor member.
- the xeroprinting master precursor member having the electrical latent image thereon is then exposed to solvent vapor 64 (represented by dots) as shown in FIG. 11.
- the vapor exposure time depends upon factors such as the solubility of softenable layer in the solvent, the type of solvent vapor, the ambient temperature and the concentration of the solvent vapors. Moreover, the presence or absence of an overcoating on the softenable layer can affect the exposure time.
- the charge transport molecule in the softenable layer and the vapor treatment function by limiting the photogenerated charge on the exposed migration marking particles (see FIG. 10) to a reproducible but very small level after the vapor treatment step. This small level of net charge allows only slight agglomeration, coalescence or combination thereof of the exposed migration marking particles during the subsequent heating step.
- This small level of net charge may also cause the light exposed particles to migrate slightly away from the softenable surface spaced from the substrate, slightly increasing the separation between adjacent migration marking particles. This results in a D max region. In the unexposed region, the surface charge becomes entirely discharged by vapor exposure
- the latent image is further developed by decreasing the resistance of the softenable material to migration of the particulate marking material by application of heat 66 shown radiating into the softenable material 56 to effect softening.
- the viscosity of the softenable material is reduced so much by the combined effects of vapor and heat softening that these unexposed particles, which have no residual charge to repel one another and also are still very close to each other, can diffuse randomly into intimate contact with one another, and actually coalesce very rapidly to form very few, much larger spheres 70.
- These agglomerated/coalesced particles are so widely separated and so much larger than the wavelengths of visible light that they become essentially invisible, resulting in very low D min .
- the light exposed particles are still slightly charged and/or migrate slightly due to the previous solvent vapor treatment, only slight agglomeration/coalescence and/or slight migration occur.
- the position of these light exposed particles remains substantially unchanged from the position taken during the vapor treatment step shown in FIG. 11.
- the migration marking material is shown slightly agglomerated/coalesced and/or migrated in the exposed region and in a substantially agglomerated/coalesced state in the unexposed region.
- the exposed and unexposed regions correspond to the formation of the electrical latent image described in conjunction with FIGS. 10 and 11.
- the process of preparing the xeroprinting master produces optically positive images from positive originals or optically positive images from negative originals, i.e.
- imagewise exposure may be effected by means other than light-lens systems, e.g. Raster Output Scanning devices such as laser writers. Satisfactory results have been achieved with vapor exposure times of between about 10 seconds and about 2 minutes at 21° C. and development heating temperatures between about 80° C. and about 120° C.
- the uncoated softenable layer contains a custom synthesized 80/20 mole percent copolymer of styrene and hexylmethacrylate having an intrinsic viscosity of 0.179 dl/gm and N,N'-diphenyl-N,N'diphenyl-N,N'-bis(3"-methylphenyl)-(1,1'-biphenyl)-4,4'-diamine.
- the test for a satisfactory combination of time, temperature and vapor concentration is maximized optical contrast density and electrostatic contrast potential for xeroprinting.
- FIG. 12 The imaged xeroprinting master illustrated in FIG. 12 is shown without any optional layers like that illustrated in FIG. 3. If desired, alternative master embodiments like that illustrated in FIG. 1 or FIG. 2 may be substituted for the coated member illustrated in FIGS. 3 and 12.
- the imaged xeroprinting master shown in FIG. 12 is highly transmitting to visible light in the unexposed region because of the substantial agglomeration and coalescence of the migration marking material in the unexposed region.
- the D min obtained in the unexposed region is almost as low as the optical density of transparent substrates underlying the softenable layer.
- the D max in the exposed region is also high, because only slight agglomeration/coalescence and/or slight migration of the light-exposed particles occur.
- optically sign-reversed images with high contrast density in the region of 1.0 to 1.3, may be achieved for xeroprinting masters.
- exceptional resolution such as 228 line pairs per millimeter may be achieved on the xeroprinting masters.
- the vapor must be applied to the master after the imagewise exposure step but prior to a final heat development step in order to achieve these highly light transmitting images.
- Charge injection of the first sign of charge is accomplished by the incorporation of charge transport materials into the softenable layer of the master. Because of a very small amount of net charge in the light exposed regions, only slight agglomeration/coalescence and/or slight migration of the light-exposed particles occur. Thus the optical density is only slightly reduced, for example to about 1.0 to 1.7, (preferably 1.2 to 1.7 or more, and more preferably 1.4 to 1.7 or more), compared with an initial value of about 1.8 to 1.9. Slight net charge in the particles and/or slight migration is necessary to achieve the excellent results of this invention, but it should not be excessive otherwise the D max (and consequently the contrast density) of the final sign-reversed image is degraded beyond the values given above.
- the exposed migration imaging praticles gain an appreciable net charge and migrate considerably to produce a low optical density region instead of a high optical density region when processed with the vapor treatment heat development steps for preparing the masters used in the xeroprinting process of this invention.
- the unexposed particles do not become charged and do not migrate upon vapor exposure during the vapor treatment step (or during any heat treatment step that might be employed prior to the vapor treatment step), but remain substantially uncharged in the monolayer configuration to allow substantial agglomeration and coalescence during the final heating step which follows the vapor treatment step.
- conventional migration imaging members free of any charge transport material in he softenable layer, unexposed particles also generally remain substantially uncharged.
- the charge transport materials in the masters employed in the xeroprinting process of this invention primarily alter the electrostatics of the light exposed particles.
- the light exposed migration imaging particles gain a net positive charge on vapor exposure.
- This resultant charge can be reduced to a reproducible low level if electron injection into the migration imaging particles also occurs on or after light exposure. This may be achieved with electron injecting molecules in the continuous matrix of the softenable layer.
- the Highest Occupied Molecular Orbital (HOMO) of at least one material in the continuous matrix of the softenable layer should not lie too far below the top of and may preferably lie above the top of the valence band of the migration imaging particles, otherwise this energy barrier will prevent injection, even if field assisted.
- the unexposed migration imaging particles must remain substantially neutral and not migrate out of the monolayer on vapor exposure; otherwise agglomeration and coalescence become very difficult.
- no material in the matrix of the softenable layer must have a HOMO lying too far above the valence band of the migration imaging particles, otherwise an unacceptable level of charge exchange will occur with the unexposed migration imaging particles, causing them to migrate indiscriminately on vapor exposure.
- the HOMO of at least one material in the matrix of the softenable layer must not lie significantly below the top of and may preferably lie above the top of the valence band of the migration imaging particles, and if the HOMO of at least one charge transport material lies substantially above the top of the valence band of the migration imaging particles, this charge transport material should be used in relatively lower concentration.
- the acceptable concentration of charge transport material will generally fall as a function of the difference between its HOMO and the valence band of the migration imaging particles.
- Suitable concentration of charge transport materials can be experimentally determined by maximizing the optical contrast density of the obtained sign-reversed images as well as the electrostatic contrast potential needed for xeroprinting as a function of the concentration. It is found, for example, that the concentration must be reduced below about 20 percent as the energy difference between the HOMO and the valence band rises above roughly 0.9-1.0 eV.
- Charge transport must also extend through the matrix of the softenable layer on light exposure both to produce the required electrostatic ontrast potential of the latent image and to ensure freedom from residual charge buildup on rapid cycling.
- the HOMO of most polymer materials used as softenable layers in migration imaging members lies well below the valence band of amorphous selenium migration imaging particles. Under these circumstances, there is negligible electron injection into the migration imaging particles on light exposure, unless a charge transport material (i.e one having an appropriate HOMO) is deliberately added.
- the first two, N,N'-diphenyl-N,N'-bis(3"-methylphenyl)(1,1'-biphenyl)-4,4'-diamine and 3-methyl diphenyl amine provided good vapor-heat development sign-reversing images at about the 20 percent concentration level. While N,N'-diphenyl-N,N'-bis(3"-methylphenyl)-(1,1'-biphenyl)-4,4'-diamine gave good injection and transport on light exposure (resulting in near total film voltage discharge), 3-methyl diphenyl amine gave good injection but relatively poor transport (resulting in a relatively higher residual voltage), showing that transport after injection and prior to development is not critical for good imaging.
- no substantial matrix component must have a LUMO which lies too far below the conduction band of the migration imaging particles. If the LUMO of any significant matrix component lies substantially below the conduction band of the migration imaging particles, this matrix component should be used in a relatively low concentration.
- the acceptable concentration of charge transport material will generally fall as a function of the difference between its LUMO and the conduction band of the migration imaging particles. Suitable concentration of charge transport materials can be experimentally determined by maximizing the optical contrast density of the obtained sign-reversed images as well as the electrostatic contrast potential needed for xeroprinting as a function of the concentration. According to this mechanism, it is believed that hole injection into the light exposed migration imaging particles is sufficient to ensure their eventual near neutrality.
- the LUMO of typical polymeric materials used for the softenable layer of migration imaging members lies well above the conduction band of amorphous selenium; hence there should be negligible hole injection into the particles on light exposure unless a charge transport material (i.e. one with an appropriate LUMO is deliberately added.
- Combinations of the charge transport material and the migration imaging particles listed above and below which meet the above HOMO or LUMO requirements should, of course, also meet the normal requirement of compatibility with any softenable material used in the matrix.
- the combination of the charge transport material and the insulating film-forming binder should be such that the charge transport material may be incorporated into the film-forming binder in sufficient concentration levels while still remaining in solution or molecularly dispersed.
- the insulating film-forming binder need not be utilized where the charge transport material is a polymeric film-forming material.
- the prepared xeroprinting master can thereafter be utilized in a xeroprinting process where the xeroprinting master is uniformly charged by corona charging.
- the polarity of corona charging to be used in the xeroprinting process is detemined by whether hole transport materials or electron transport materials are incorporated into the softenable layer and the charge transport layer.
- Positive corona charging is used with hole transport material in the softenable layer and the charge transport layer.
- the xeroprinting master is uniformly charged negatively.
- the xeroprinting master is uniformly charged positively with a corona charging device as shown in FIG. 13.
- the charged imaging member is then uniformly flash exposed as shown in FIG. 14 to form an electrostatic latent image.
- the D max area and the D min area of the xeroprinting master exhibit not only greatly different optical densities (the D max area being highly absorbing and D min area being transmitting), but also greatly different photodischarge when the xeroprinting master of this invention is uniformly charged and then uniformly exposed to light.
- photodischarge occurs predominantly in the D max area and substantially less occurs in the D min area of the xeroprinting master, resulting in an electrostatic latent image.
- the activating illumination for the uniform exposure step should be substantially absorbed by the migration marking particles to cause substantial photodischarge in the D max area.
- the activating electromagnetic radiation used for the uniform exposure step should be in the spectral region where the migration marking particles photogenerate charge carriers. Monochromatic light in the region of about 300-500 nanometers is preferred for selenium particles to maximize the electrostatic contrast potential of the electrostatic latent image.
- the exposure energy should be such that the desired and/or optimal electrostatic contrast potential is obtained.
- the xeroprinting master in accordance with this invention can be considered as an imagewise "spoiled" photoreceptor, the D max area being a relatively good photoreceptor and the D min area being a relatively poor photoreceptor.
- the words “poor” and “good” are intended to describe two photoreceptors whose difference in background potential differs by at least 30 percent and preferably at least 40 percent of the initial applied surface potential, the good photoreceptor being the one exhibiting the higher photodischarge.
- This imagewise "spoiled” photoreceptor possesses different photodischarge characteristics (and photosensitivity) caused by permanent structural changes of the migration marking material in the softenable layer.
- the D max areas exhibit substantial photodischarge when electrostatically charged and exposed to light and are substantially absorbing and opaque to activating electromagnetic radiation in the spectral region in which the migration marking particles photogenerate charge carriers.
- the D min areas exhibit substantially less photodischarge so that the background potential differs by at least about 30 percent, and more preferably at least about 40 percent of the initial applied surface potential compared with the D max areas, and are substantially less absorbing to activating electromagnetic radiation in the spectral region in which the migration marking particles photogenerate charge carriers.
- this greatly improved structure of xeroprinting master of the present invention ensures consistently excellent copy quality without the problem of degradation of the electrostatic latent image, as in some prior art masters, for example, as discussed above and described in U.S.-A Pat. No. 4,407,918, in which the lifetime of the electrostatic latent image depends on the insulating ability of a charge retentive layer.
- the visible image on the xeroprinting master is an optically sign-reversed image of a positive original (if the master is created by lens coupled exposure instead of laser scanning), the electrostatic charge pattern is a positive (sign-retaining) of the original image.
- the electrostatic latent image is then developed with toner particles to form a toner image corresponding to the electrostatic latent image.
- the developing (toning) step is identical to that conventionally used in xerographic imaging. Any suitable conventional xerographic dry or liquid developer containing electrostatically attractable marking particles may be employed to develop the electrostatic latent image on the xeroprinting masters of this invention.
- Typical dry toners have a particle size of between about 6 micrometers and about 20 micrometers.
- Typical liquid toners have a particle size of between about 0.1 micrometers and about 3 micrometers. The size of toner particles affect the resolution of prints.
- liquid toners are generally preferred because their much smaller toner particle size gives better resolution of fine half-tone dots and produce four color images without undue thickness in dense black areas.
- Transferrable liquid developed toners are typically about 2 micrometers in diameter.
- Conventional xerographic development techniques may be utilized to deposit the toner particles on the imaging surface of the xeroprinting masters of this invention.
- Two-component developers comprise toner particles and carrier particles.
- Typical toner particles may be of any composition suitable for development of electrostatic latent images, such as those comprising a resin and a colorant.
- Typical toner resins include polyesters, polyamides, epoxies, polyurethanes, diolefins, vinyl resins and polymeric esterification products of a dicarboxylic acid and a diol comprising a diphenol.
- vinyl monomers examples include styrene, p-chlorostyrene, vinyl naphthalene, unsaturated mono-olefins such as ethylene, propylene, butylene, isobutylene and the like; vinyl halides such as vinyl chloride, vinyl bromide, vinyl fluoride, vinyl acetate, vinyl propionate, vinyl benzoate, and vinyl butyrate; vinyl esters such as esters of monocarboxylic acids, including methyl acrylate, ethyl acrylate, n-butylacrylate, isobutyl acrylate, dodecyl acrylate, n-octyl acrylate, 2-chloroethyl acrylate, phenyl acrylate, methylalpha-chloroacrylate, methyl methacrylate, ethyl methacrylate, butyl methacrylate, and the like; acrylonitrile, methacrylonitrile, acrylamide, vinyl ethers
- any suitable pigment or dyes may be employed in the toner particles.
- Typical pigments or dyes include carbon black, nigrosine dye, aniline blue, magnetites, and mixtures thereof, with carbon black being the preferred colorant.
- the pigment is preferably present in an amount sufficient to render the toner composition highly colored to permit the formation of a clearly visible image on a recording member.
- the pigment particles are present in amounts of from about 1 percent by weight to about 20 percent by weight based on the total weight of the toner composition; however, lesser or greater amounts of pigment particles may be present provided that the objectives of the present invention are achieved.
- magenta pigments include red, green, blue, brown, magenta, cyan, and yellow particles, as well as mixtures thereof.
- suitable magenta pigments include 2,9-dimethyl-substituted quinacridone and anthraquinone dye, identified in the color index as CI 60710, CI Dispersed Red 15, a diazo dye identified in the color index as CI 26050, CI Solvent Red 19, and the like.
- Suitable cyan pigments include copper tetra-4-(octadecyl sulfonamido) phthalocyanine, X-copper phthalocyanine pigment, listed in the color index as CI 74160, CI Pigment Blue, and Anthradanthrene Blue, identified in the color index as CI 69810, Special Blue X-2137, and the like.
- yellow pigments that may be selected include diarylide yellow 3,3-dichlorobenzidene acetoacetanilides, a monoazo pigment identified in the color index as CI 12700, CI Solvent Yellow 16, a nitrophenyl amine sulfonamide identified in the color index as Foron Yellow SE/GLN, CI Dispersed Yellow 33, 2,5-dimethoxy-4-sulfonanilide phenylazo-4'-chloro-2,5-dimethoxy aceto-acetanilide, Permanent Yellow FGL, and the like.
- These color pigments are generally present in an amount of from about 15 weight percent to about 20.5 weight percent based on the weight of the toner resin particles, although lesser or greater amounts may be present provided that the objectives of the present invention are met.
- pigment particles are magnetites, which comprise a mixture of iron oxides (Fe 3 O 4 ) such as those commercially available as Mapico Black.
- These pigments are present in the toner composition in an amount of from about 10 percent by weight to about 70 percent by weight, and preferably in an amount of from about 20 percent by weight to about 50 percent by weight, although they may be present in greater or lesser amounts, provided that the objectives of the invention are achieved.
- the toner compositions may be prepared by any suitable method.
- the components of the dry toner particles may be mixed in a ball mill, to which steel beads for agitation are added in an amount of approximately five times the weight of the toner.
- the ball mill may be operated at about 120 feet per minute for about 30 minutes, after which time the steel beads are removed.
- Dry toner particles for two-component developers generally have an average particle size between about 6 micrometers and about 20 micrometers.
- any suitable external additives may also be utilized with the dry toner particles.
- the amounts of external additives are measured in terms of percentage by weight of the toner composition, but are not themselves included when calculating the percentage composition of the toner.
- a toner composition containing a resin, a pigment, and an external additive may comprise 80 percent by weight resin and 20 percent by weight pigment; the amount of external additive present is reported in terms of its percent by weight of the combined resin and pigment.
- External additives may include any additives suitable for use in electrostatographic toners, including straight silica, colloidal silica (e.g.
- Aerosil R972® available from Degussa, Inc.
- ferric oxide unilin
- polypropylene waxes polymethylmethacrylate
- zinc stearate zinc stearate
- chromium oxide aluminum oxide
- stearic acid polyvinylidene flouride (e.g. Kynar®, available from Pennsalt Chemicals Corporation), and the like.
- External additives may be present in any suitable amount, provided that the objectives of the present invention are achieved.
- carrier particles may be employed with the toner particles.
- Typical carrier particles include granular zircon, steel, nickel, iron ferrites, and the like.
- Other typical carrier particles include nickel berry carriers as disclosed in U.S.-A Pat. No. 3,847,604, the entire disclosure of which is incorporated herein by reference. These carriers comprise nodular carrier beads of nickel characterized by surfaces of reoccurring recesses and protrusions that provide the particles with a relatively large external area.
- the diameters of the carrier particles may vary, but are generally from about 50 microns to about 1,000 microns, thus allowing the particles to possess sufficient density and inertia to avoid adherence to the electrostatic images during the development process.
- Carrier particles may possess coated surfaces.
- Typical coating materials include polymers and terpolymers, including, for example, fluoropolymers such as polyvinylidene fluorides as disclosed in U.S.-A Pat. Nos. 3,526,533; 3,849,186; and 3,942,979, the entire disclosures of which are incorporated herein by reference.
- the toner may be present, for example, in the two-component developer in an amount equal to about 1 to about 3 percent by weight of the carrier, and preferably is equal to about 3 percent by weight of the carrier.
- Typical dry toners are disclosed, for example, in U.S.-A Pat. No. 2,788,288, US-A 3,079,342 and US-A Reissue 25,136, the disclosures of which are incorporated herein in their entirely.
- development may be effected with liquid developers.
- Liquid developers are disclosed, for example, in U.S.-A Pat. No. 2,890,174 and U.S.-A Pat. No. 2,899,335.
- Liquid developers may comprise aqueous base or oil based inks. This includes both inks containing a water or oil soluble dye substance and the pigmented inks.
- Typical dye substances are Methylene Blue, commercially available from Eastman Kodak Company, Brilliant Yellow, commercially available from the Harlaco Chemical Co., potassium permanganate, ferric chloride and Methylene Violet, Rose Bengal and Quinoline Yellow, the latter three available from Allied Chemical Company, and the like.
- Typical pigments are carbon black, graphite, lamp black, bone black, charcoal, titanium dioxide, white lead, zinc oxide, zinc sulfide, iron oxide, chromium oxide, lead chromate, zinc chromate, cadmium yellow, cadmium red, red lead, antimony dioxide, magnesium silicate, calcium carbonate, calcium silicate, phthalocyanines, benzidines, naphthols, toluidines, and the like.
- the liquid developer composition may comprise a finely divided opaque powder, a high resistance liquid and an ingredient to prevent agglomeration.
- Typical high resistance liquids include such organic dielectric liquids as Isopar, carbon tetrachloride, kerosene, benzene, trichloroethylene, and the like.
- liquid developer components or additives include vinyl resins, such as carboxy vinyl polymers, polyvinylpyrrolidones, methylvinylether maleic anhydride interpolymers, polyvinyl alcohols, cellulosics such as sodium carboxy-ethylcellulose, hydroxypropylmethyl cellulose, hydroxyethyl cellulose, methyl cellulose, cellulose derivatives such as esters and ethers thereof, alkali soluble proteins, casein, gelatin, and acrylate salts such as ammonium polyacrylate, sodium polyacrylate, and the like.
- vinyl resins such as carboxy vinyl polymers, polyvinylpyrrolidones, methylvinylether maleic anhydride interpolymers, polyvinyl alcohols, cellulosics such as sodium carboxy-ethylcellulose, hydroxypropylmethyl cellulose, hydroxyethyl cellulose, methyl cellulose, cellulose derivatives such as esters and ethers thereof, alkali soluble proteins,
- any suitable conventional xerographic development technique may be utilized to deposit toner particles on the electrostatic latent image on the imaging surface of the dielectric imaging members of this invention.
- Well known xerographic development techniques include, magnetic brush, cascade, powder cloud, electrophoretic and the like development processes. Magnetic brush development is more fully described, for example in U.S.-A Pat. No. 2,791,949, cascade development is more fully described, for example, in U.S.-A Pat. No. 2,618,551 and U.S.-A Pat. No. 2,618,552, powder cloud development is more fully described, for example, in U.S.-A Pat. No. 2,725,305 and U.S.-A Pat. No. 2,918,910, and U.S.-A Pat. No. 3,015,305, and liquid development is more fully described, for example, in U.S.-A Pat. No. 3,084,043. All of these toner, developer and development technique patents are incorporated herein in their entirety.
- the deposited toner image may be transferred to a receiving member such as paper by any suitable technique conventionally used in xerography such as corona transfer, pressure transfer, adhesive transfer, bias roll transfer and the like.
- Typical corona transfer involves contacting the deposited toner particles with a sheet of paper and applying an electrostatic charge on the side of the sheet opposite to the toner particles.
- a single wire corotron having applied thereto a potential of between about 5000 and about 8000 volts provides satisfactory transfer.
- the transferred toner image may be fixed to the receiving sheet.
- the fixing step may be also identical to that conventionally used in xerographic imaging.
- Typical, well known xerographic fusing techniques include heated roll fusing, flash fusing, oven fusing, laminating, adhesive spray fixing, and the like.
- the master may optionally be erased by conventional xerographic erasing techniques. For example, uniform exposure of the xeroprinting master to a strong light will discharge both the image and non-image areas of the master. Typical light intensities useful for erasure range from about 10 times to about 300 times the light intensities used for the uniform exposure step.
- Another well known technique involves exposing the imaging surface to AC corona discharge to neutralize any residual charge on the master. Typical potentials applied to the corona wire of an AC corona erasing device may range from about 5 kilovolts and about 10 kilovolts.
- the imaging surface of the xeroprinting master may be cleaned. Any suitable cleaning step that is conventionally used in xerographic imaging may be employed for cleaning the xeroprinting master of this invention. Typical, well known xerographic cleaning techniques include brush cleaning, blade cleaning, web cleaning, and the like.
- the master may, with or without erase and cleaning steps, be cycled through additional uniform charging, uniform illumination, development and transfer steps to prepare additional imaged receiving members.
- the master utilized in the xeroprinting system of this invention can be uniformly charged to its full potential because the entire imaging surface is insulating (i.e. no insulating patterns on a metal conductor where fringing fields from the insulating areas repel incoming corona ions to the adjacent conductive areas). This yields electrostatic image of high contrast potential and high resolution on the master. Thus high quality prints having high contrast density and high resolution are obtained.
- the problems of low contrast potential and poor resolution of conventional prior art masters are, thus, overcome.
- the imagewise exposure step need only be performed once to produce the xeroprinting master of this invention from which multiple prints can be produced at high speed.
- the xeroprinting system of this invention surmounts the fundamental electronic bandwidth problem which prevents a conventional xerographic approach to very high quality, high speed electronic black-and-white or color printing.
- the combined capabilities of high photosensitivity, high quality and high printing speed at reasonable cost make the xeroprinting master and xeroprinting system of this invention suitable for both high quality color proofing and printing/duplicating applications.
- the xeroprinting system of this invention offers the advantages of lower master costs (no need for separate lithographic intermediate and printing plates. Intermediates are needed in offset printing because the printing plates are not photosensitive enough to be imaged directly; instead, the print plates are contact exposed to the intermediate using strong UV light, and then chemically developed), simpler preparation with no effluents, improved printing stability and substantially shortened time and lower cost to obtain the first acceptable print. As a result, this eliminates the need of using totally different printing technologies for color proofing and printing as required by prior art techniques and the end users can be reliably assured of the desired print quality before a large number of prints is made.
- the xeroprinting master and xeroprinting system of this invention are not only practical but less costly than other known systems.
- the imaging member of the present invention allows maximum flexibility in selecting appropriate materials to maximize its mechanical, chemical, electrical, imaging and xeroprinting properties.
- the xeroprinting master of this invention is formed as a result of permanent structural changes in the migration marking material in the softenable layer without removal and disposal of any components from the softenable layer.
- the xeroprinting master and xeroprinting system of this invention offers the combined advantages of simple fabrication, lower costs, high photosensitivity, simple master preparation with no effluents, high quality, high resolution and high printing speed.
- the xeroprinting master precursor member of this invention can also be, simply used as a conventional photoreceptor in conventional xerography.
- the xeroprinting master of this invention can be substituted for the conventional silver-halide film used as an intermediate film to prepare conventional printing plates in offset printing in addition to being useful as a xeroprinting master.
- a xeroprinting master precursor member similar to that illustrated in FIG. 3 was prepared by dissolving about 15.0 percent by weight of a 80/20 mole percent copolymer of styrene and hexylmethacrylate, and about 4.8 percent by weight of N,N'-diphenyl-N,N'-bis(3"-methylphenyl)-(1,1'-biphenyl)-4,4'-diamine in about 80.2 percent by weight toluene based on the total weight of the solution.
- the resulting solution was applied by means of a No. 25 wire wound rod to a 12 inch wide 76 micrometer (3 mil) thick Mylar polyester film (available from E. I.
- the deposited softenable layer was allowed to dry at about 110° C. for about 15 minutes.
- the thickness of the dried softenable layer was about 5 microns.
- the temperature of the softenable layer was raised to about 115° C. to lower the viscosity of the exposed surface of the softenable layer to about 5 ⁇ 10 3 poises in preparation for the deposition of marking material.
- a thin layer of particulate vitreous selenium was then applied by vacuum deposition in a vacuum chamber maintained at a vacuum of about 4 ⁇ 10 -4 Torr. The imaging member was then rapidly chilled to room temperature.
- a reddish monolayer of selenium particles having an average diameter of about 0.3 micrometer embedded about 0.05-0.1 micrometer below the exposed surface of the copolymer was formed.
- the resulting xeroprinting master precursor member was thereafter imaged and developed by a combination of vapor and heat processing techniques comprising the steps of positive corotron charging to a surface potential of about +400 volts, exposing to activating radiation through a stepwedge, exposure to methyl ethyl ketone in a vapor chamber for about 35 seconds and heating to about 115° C. for about 5 seconds on a hot plate in contact with the polyester.
- the resulting imaged migration imaging member exhibited an optically sign-reversed image of the original, excellent image quality, resolution in excess of 228 line pairs per millimeter, and a contrast density of about 0.67.
- D max was about 0.95 and the D min was about 0.28. It was also found that the transparent, very low D min was due to agglomeration and coalescence of the selenium particles into fewer and larger particles in the D min regions of the image.
- the xeroprinting master was then uniformly charged with positive corona charge to about +600 volts followed by a brief uniform flash exposure to 440 nanometer activating illumination of about 10 ergs/cm 2 .
- the surface potential was about +50 volts in the D max region of the image and about +400 volts in the D min region thereby yielding an electrostatic contrast potential of about +350 volts.
- This resulting electrostatic latent image was then toned with negatively charged toner particles comprising carbon black pigmented styrene/butylmethacrylate resin having an average particle size of about 10 micrometers to form a deposited toner image.
- the deposited toner image was electrostatically transferred to a sheet of paper by corona charging the rear surface of the paper and the transferred toner image thereafter heat fused to yield a high quality print.
- the transferred prints exhibited a contrast density of about 1.1 and resolution in excess of 15 line pairs per millimeters.
- a xeroprinting master precursor member similar to that illustrated in FIG. 2 was prepared by hand coating, with a No. 4 wire wound rod, a thin adhesive layer of polyester (49000, available from E. I. DuPont de Nemours Co.) onto an aluminized polyester film having a thickness of about 76 micrometers (3 mils).
- the adhesive layer upon drying at 110° C. for about 5 minutes had a thickness of about 0.1 micrometer.
- a charge transport spacing layer was thereafter formed on the adhesive layer by dissolving about 20 percent by weight of a polycarbonate resin, and about 6 percent by weight of N,N'-diphenyl-N,N'-bis(3"-methylphenyl)-(1,1'-biphenyl)-4,4'-diamine in about 74 percent by weight methylene chloride solvent based on the total weight of the solution. After drying at 110° C. for about 15 minute, the charge transport spacing layer had a thickness of about 4 micrometers.
- An image forming softenable layer was then formed on the charge transport spacing layer by applying a coating mixture comprising about 15 percent by weight of a 80/20 mole percent copolymer of styrene and hexylmethacrylate, 3 percent by weight N,N'-diphenyl-N,N'-bis(3"-methylphenyl)-(1,1'-biphenyl)-4,4'-diamine, in about 82 percent by weight toluene based on the total weight of the solution. After drying at 110° C. for about 15 minutes, the image forming softenable layer had a dried thickness of about 2 micrometers. The temperature of the softenable layer was raised to about 115° C.
- a thin layer of particulate vitreous selenium was then applied by vacuum deposition in a vacuum chamber maintained at a vacuum of about 4 ⁇ 10 -4 Torr.
- the imaging member was then rapidly chilled to room temperature.
- a reddish monolayer of selenium particles having an average diameter of about 0.3 micrometer embedded about 0.05-0.1 micrometer below the exposed surface of the copolymer was formed.
- a xeroprinting master was thereafter prepared with this xeroprinting master precursor member in the same manner as that described in Example I.
- An optically sign-reversed visible image having a background density of about 0.30 and resolution in excess of 228 line pairs per millimeter was obtained.
- This xeroprinting master was then uniformly charged with positive corona charging to a potential of about +700 volts and uniformly flash exposed to 400-700 nanometer white light of about 80 ergs/cm 2 .
- the surface potential D max region of the image was about +40 volts and the surface potential in the D min region was about +400 volts to yield a contrast potential of about +360 volts.
- This resulting electrostatic latent image was then toned with negatively charged toner particles comprising carbon black pigmented styrene/butylmethacrylate resin having an average particle size of about 10 micrometers to form a deposited toner image.
- the deposited toner image was electrostatically transferred to a sheet of paper by corona charging the rear surface of the paper and the transferred toner image thereafter heat fused to yield a high quality print.
- the transferred prints exhibited a contrast density of about 1.1 and resolution in excess of 15 line pairs per millimeter.
- a xeroprinting master precursor member similar to that illustrated in FIG. 1 was prepared by coating with a No 25 wire wound rod a charge transport spacing layer on an aluminized polyester film having a thickness of about 76 micrometers (3 mils), dissolving about 20 percent by weight of a styrene ethylacrylate acrylic acid resin (RP1215, available from Monsanto Co.), and about 6.8 percent by weight of N,N'-diphenyl-N,N'-bis(3"-methylphenyl)-(1,1'-biphenyl)-4,4'-diamine in about 73.2 percent by weight toluene based on the total weight of the solution. After drying at 110° C.
- RP1215 styrene ethylacrylate acrylic acid resin
- the charge transport spacing layer had a thickness of about 6 micrometers.
- An image forming softenable layer was then formed on the charge transport spacing layer by applying a coating mixture comprising about 15 percent by weight of a 80/20 mole percent copolymer of styrene and ethylacrylate, 2.4 percent by weight N,N'-diphenyl-N,N'-bis(3"-methylphenyl)-(1,1'-biphenyl)-4,4'-diamine, in about 50 percent by weight cyclohexane solvent and about 32 percent by weight toluene solvent based on the total weight of the solution. After drying drying at 110° C.
- the image forming softenable layer had a thickness of about 2 micrometers.
- the temperature of the softenable layer was raised to about 115° C. to lower the viscosity of the exposed surface of the softenable layer to about 5 ⁇ 10 3 poises in preparation for the deposition of marking material.
- a thin layer of particulate vitreous selenium was then applied by vacuum deposition in a vacuum chamber maintained at a vacuum of about 4 ⁇ 10 -4 Torr.
- the imaging member was then rapidly chilled to room temperature.
- a reddish monolayer of selenium particles having an average diameter of about 0.3 micrometer embedded about 0.05-0.1 micrometer below the exposed surface of the copolymer was formed.
- a xeroprinting master was thereafter prepared with this xeroprinting master precursor member in the same manner as that described in Example I.
- This xeroprinting master was then uniformly charged with positive corona charging to a potential of about +850 volts and uniformly flash exposed to 440 nanometer activating illumination of about 10 ergs/cm 2 .
- the surface potential D max region of the image was about +85 volts and the surface potential in the D min region was about +575 volts to yield a contrast potential of about +490 volts.
- This resulting electrostatic latent image was then toned with negatively charged toner particles comprising carbon black pigmented styrene/butadiene resin having an average particle size of about 6 micrometers to form a deposited toner image.
- the deposited toner image was electrostatically transferred to a sheet of paper by corona charging the rear surface of the paper and the transferred toner image thereafter heat fused to yield a high quality print.
- the transferred prints exhibited a contrast density of about 1.3 and resolution in excess of 15 line pairs per millimeter.
- a xeroprinting master precursor member similar to that illustrated in FIG. 3 was preared by dissolving about 15 percent by weight of a 80/20 mole percent copolymer of styrene and hexylmethacrylate, and about 4.8 percent by weight of N,N'-diphenyl-N,N'-bis(3"-methylphenyl)-(1,1'-biphenyl)-4,4'-diamine in about 80.2 percent by weight toluene based on the total weight of the solution.
- the resulting solution was applied by means of a No. 10 wire wound rod to a 12 inch wide 76 micrometer (3 mil) thick Mylar polyester film (available from E. I.
- duPont de Nemours Co. having a thin, semi-transparent aluminum coating.
- the deposited softenable layer was allowed to dry at about 110° C. for about 15 minutes.
- the thickness of the dried softenable layer was about 2 micrometers.
- the temperature of the softenable layer was raised to about 115° C. to lower the viscosity of the exposed surface of the softenable layer to about 5 ⁇ 10 3 poises in preparation for the deposition of marking material.
- a thin layer of particulate vitreous selenium was then applied by vacuum deposition in a vacuum chamber maintained at a vacuum of about 4 ⁇ 10 -4 Torr.
- the imaging member was then rapidly chilled to room temperature.
- a reddish monolayer of selenium particles having an average diameter of about 0.3 micrometer embedded about 0.05-0.1 micrometer below the exposed surface of the copolymer was formed.
- the resulting xeroprinting master precursor member was thereafter imaged and developed by a combination of vapor and heat processing techniques comprising the steps of positive corotron charging to a surface potential of about +200 volts, exposing to activating radiation through a stepwedge, exposure to methyl ethyl ketone in a vapor chamber for about 20 seconds and heating to about 115° C. for about 3 seconds on a hot plate in contact with the polyester.
- the resulting imaged migration imaging member exhibited an optically sign-reversed image of the original, excellent image quality, resolution in excess of 228 line pairs per millimeter, and a contrast density of about 0.65.
- D max was about 0.95 and the D min was about 0.3. It was found that the transparent, very low D min was due to agglomeration and coalescence of the selenium particles into fewer and larger particles in the D min regions of the image.
- the xeroprinting master was then uniformly charged with positive corona charge to about +250 volts followed by a brief uniform flash exposure to 440 nanometer activating illumination of about 10 ergs/cm 2 .
- the surface potential was about +22 volts in the D max region of the image and about +93 volts in the D min region thereby yielding an electrostatic contrast potential of about +71 volts.
- This resulting electrostatic latent image was then toned with negatively charged toner particles comprising carbon black pigmented styrene/butadiene resin having an average particle size of about 6 micrometers to form a deposited toner image.
- the deposited toner image was electrostatically transferred to a sheet of paper by corona charging the rear surface of the paper and the transferred toner image thereafter heat fused. It was found that the transferred image exhibited poor quality and low print density because of its relatively low electrostatic contrast potential (about 71 volts) of the electrostatic latent image when developed with dry toners.
- a xeroprinting master precursor member similar to that illustrated in FIG. 3 but without charge transport molecule in the softenable layer was prepared by dissolving about 15 percent by weight of a 80/20 mole percent copolymer of styrene and hexylmethacrylate in about 85 percent by weight toluene based on the total weight of the solution.
- the resulting solution was applied by means of a No. 25 wire wound rod to a 12 inch wide, 76 micrometers (3 mil) thick Mylar polyester film (available from E. I. duPont de Nemours Co.) having a thin, semi-transparent aluminum coating.
- the deposited softenable layer was allowed to dry at about 110° C. for about 15 minutes.
- the thickness of the dried softenable layer was about 5 micrometers.
- the temperature of the softenable layer was raised to about 115° C. to lower the viscosity of the exposed surface of the softenable layer to about 5 ⁇ 10 3 poises in preparation for the deposition of marking material.
- a thin layer of particulate vitreous selenium was then applied by vacuum deposition in a vacuum chamber maintained at a vacuum of about 4 ⁇ 10 -4 Torr.
- the imaging member was then rapidly chilled to room temperature.
- a reddish monolayer of selenium particles having an average diameter of about 0.3 micrometer embedded about 0.05-0.1 micrometer below the exposed surface of the copolymer was formed.
- the resulting xeroprinting master precursor member was thereafter imaged and developed by heat processing techniques comprising the steps of positive corotron charging to a surface potential of about +400 volts, exposing to activating radiation through a stepwedge, and heating to about 115° C. for about 5 seconds on a hot plate in contact with the polyester. It was found that without charge transport molecule in the softenable layer, the resulting sign-reversed image exhibited a contrast density of only about 0.3. D max was about 0.60 and the D min was about 0.3.
- the low D max was due to substantial depthwise dispersion of the migrated selenium particles towards the substrate in the D max region of the image and that D min was due to agglomeration and coalescence of the selenium particles in the D min region of the image.
- the imaged member was then uniformly charged with positive corona charge to about +550 volts followed by a brief uniform flash exposure to 440 nm activating illumination of about 10 ergs/cm 2 . Since the surface potential was about +520 volts in both the D max and D min regions, no electrostatic image was obtained.
- a xeroprinting master precursor member was prepared as described in Example III and overcoated with a water borne solution containing about 10 percent by weight of styrene-acrylic copolymer (Neocryl A-1054, available from Polyvinyl Chemical Industries) and about 0.03 percent by weight of polysiloxane resin (Byk 301, available from Byk-Mallinckodt).
- the dried overcoat had a thickness of about 1.5 micrometers.
- the resulting overcoated xeroprinting master precursor member was thereafter imaged and developed by a combination of vapor and heat processing techniques comprising the steps of positive corotron charging to a surface potential of about +600 volts, exposing to activating radiation through a stepwedge, exposure to methyl ethyl ketone in a vapor chamber for about 60 seconds and heating to about 110° C. for about 10 seconds on a hot plate in contact with the polyester.
- the resulting imaged migration imaging member exhibited an optically sign-reversed image of the original, excellent quality, resolution in excess of 228 line pairs per millimeter, and a contrast density of about 1.2. D max was about 1.48 and the D min was about 0.28.
- the imaged member exhibited excellent abrasion resistance when scraped with a finger nail.
- the overcoated imaging member also retained its integrity when subjected to a very severe adhesive tape test with Scotch brand "Magic" adhesive tape. It was also found that the transparent, very low D min was due to agglomeration and coalescence of the selenium particles into fewer and larger agglomerate particles in the D min regions of the image.
- the xeroprinting master was then uniformly charged with positive corona charge to about +800 volts followed by a brief uniform flash exposure to 400-700 nanometer white light of about 100 ergs/cm 2 .
- the surface potential was about +120 volts in the D max region of the image and about +520 volts in the D min region thereby yielding an electrostatic contrast potential of about +400 volts.
- This resulting electrostatic latent image was then toned with negatively charged dry toner particles comprising styrene/butylmethacrylate resin having an average particle size of about 6 micrometers to form a deposited toner image.
- the deposited toner image was electrostatically transferred to a sheet of paper by corona charging the rear surface of the paper and the transferred toner image thereafter heat fused to yield a high quality print.
- the contrast density of the prints was about 1.3 and resolution was in excess of 15 line pairs per millimeter.
- a xeroprinting master precursor member similar to that illustrated in FIG. 3 was prepared by dissolving about 15.0 percent by weight of a terpolymer of styrene ethylacrylate and acrylic acid, and about 2.4 percent by weight of N,N'-diphenyl-N,N'-bis(3"-methylphenyl)-(1,1'-biphenyl)-4,4'-diamine in about 82.6 percent by weight toluene based on the total weight of the solution.
- the resulting solution was coated onto a 12 inch wide 76 micrometer (3 mil) thick Mylar polyester film (available from E. I. DuPont de Nemours Co.) having a thin, semi-transparent aluminum coating.
- the deposited softenable layer was allowed to dry at about 110° C. for about 15 minutes.
- the thickness of the dried softenable layer was about 4.0 micrometers.
- the temperature of the softenable layer was raised to about 115° C. to lower the viscosity of the exposed surface of the softenable layer to about 5 ⁇ 10 3 poises in preparation for the deposition of marking material.
- a thin layer of particulate vitreous selenium was then applied by vacuum deposition in a vacuum chamber maintained at a vacuum of about 4 ⁇ 10 -4 Torr.
- the imaging member was then rapidly chilled to room temperature.
- a reddish monolayer of selenium particles having an average diameter of about 0.3 micrometer embedded about 0.05-0.1 micrometer below the exposed surface of the copolymer was formed.
- the resulting xeroprinting master precursor member was thereafter imaged and developed by a combination of vapor and heat processing techniques comprising the steps of corotron charging to a surface potential of about +400 volts, exposing to activating radiation through a stepwedge, exposure to methyl ethyl ketone in a vapor chamber for about 35 seconds and heating to about 115° C. for about 5 seconds on a hot plate in contact with the polyester.
- the resulting imaged migration imaging member exhibited an optically sign-reversed image of the original, excellent image quality, resolution in excess of 228 line pairs per millimeter, and a contrast density of about 0.9.
- D max was about 1.2 and the D min was about 0.30. It was also found that the transparent, very low D min was due to agglomeration and coalescence of the selenium particles into fewer and larger particles in the D min regions of the image.
- the xeroprinting master was then uniformly charged with positive corona charge to about +500 volts followed by a brief uniform flash exposure to 400-700 nanometer activating illumination of about 40 ergs/cm 2 .
- the surface potential was about +70 volts in the D max region of the image and about +320 volts in the D min region thereby yielding an electrostatic contrast potential of about +250 volts.
- This resulting electrostatic latent image was then toned with negatively charged liquid toner particles comprising carbon black pigmented polyethylene/acrylic acid resin having an average particle size of about 0.2 micrometers to form a deposited toner image.
- the deposited toner image was electrostatically transferred to a sheet of paper by corona charging the rear surface of the paper and the transferred toner image thereafter heat fused to yield a high quality print.
- the contrast density of the prints was about 1.9 and resolution in excess of 60 line pairs per millimeter.
- a xeroprinting master member similar to that in Example III was prepared.
- the xeroprinting master was uniformly charged with positive corona charge to about +700 volts followed by a brief uniform flash exposure to white light of 400 nm-700 nm and about 100 ergs/cm 2 .
- the surface potential was about +50 volts in the D max region of the image and about +450 volts in the D min region thereby yielding an electrostatic contrast potential of about +400 volts.
- the electrostatic image was then erased by uniform strong illumination of white light 400-700 nanometer and about 1000 ergs/cm 2 .
- the above uniform charging, uniform exposure and erasure steps were repeated 1000 times. It was found that the xeroprinting master member was stable and the cycle to cycle surface potentials of +50 volts in the D max region of the image and about +450 volts in the D min region remained essentially unchanged.
- a xeroprinting master member similar to that in Example III was prepared. This xeroprinting master was then taped to a bare drum, replacing the original photoreceptor drum of an automatic copier. The xeroprinting master was then uniformly charged with positive corona charge to about +700 volts and uniformly exposed to flash illumination to form an electrostatic latent image was then toned with negatively charged toner particles comprising carbon black pigmented styrene/butadiene resin having an average particle size of about 6 micrometers to form a deposited toner image. The deposited toner image was electrostatically transferred to a sheet of paper by corona charging the rear surface of the paper and the transferred toner image thereafter heat fused to yield a high quality print. This xeroprinting process was repeated for at least 150 times with very good results.
- a second charging step to reduce the surface voltage down to near zero may be utilized prior to the vapor exposure step.
- This second charging step is of an opposite polarity to the first.
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